Announcing the 2018 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Contest Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 12, 2018
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Contest. With the rise in demand for high-quality short content across new platforms and devices, and the increased industry importance placed on short filmmaking worldwide, we’re honoring the craft of short-form narrative screenwriting via this 4th annual competition, which features a prestigious jury of industry-leading professionals.
This year’s jury includes executives from Warner Bros’ stage13, Super Deluxe, Vimeo Staff, and VICE!
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the finalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
Without further ado, here are the semifinalists:
| A Hungry Feeling | Jonathon Rodgers |
| A Second Husband | Thomas Britt |
| After FX | L.A. Singletary |
| Ambergris | Insa Langhorst |
| Amendment | Belinda Gosbee |
| An Agent of Love | Joseph Stilwell |
| At Home | Marissa High |
| Be Advised | Tom Hipp |
| Benny | Liz Felix |
| Big Things | Margaret MacDonald |
| Blight | Brittany Clemons |
| Blind Man Bounty | Shiva Ramanathan |
| Blue | Ashley Eakin & Noelle Liljedahl |
| Born Still | Ashley Platz |
| Breaking out | Mandy Vicsai |
| Brownie | Curtis Adair, Jr. |
| Bucky | Jeffrey Doiron |
| Bumper Sticker Girl | Ash Lazer |
| Call Me Lina | Demetris Yiapanis |
| Carry Tiger to Mountain | Rajiv Shah |
| Charlie | Alejandro Parga & Emily Pasternak |
| Cheater | Shaun Ford |
| Cherry | Trevor Jue |
| Cherry Pie | Dominic Finocchiaro |
| Chilanka | Neely Kartha |
| Closure | Daniyal N. Khan |
| Como se Dice | Gwendolyn Hulet |
| Dead End | Cameron Rogers-Hawson |
| Discord | Helene Taylor & Jax Smith |
| Do Us Part | Isaac Siegemund-Broka |
| Doggie | Christos Kardana |
| Dolls in the Walls | Katherine Cox & Matt McCarthy |
| Dopplebanger | Sofian Khan |
| Double Tap | Junot Lee |
| Dr. Hash | Josh Smooha |
| Droplet | Simon Deeley |
| Electro | William Gilmore |
| Filch | Kiran Deol |
| Fire Alarm | Tyler Gooden |
| Fish Head | Marcos Durian |
| Forever, Your Fireplace | Kristina Zill |
| Freeze! | Maya Albanese |
| Freezer | Elisabeth Watts |
| Freya | Sophia Tamaro & Jo Fox |
| Gelato | Katy McClellan |
| Ghost Roommate | David Kopp |
| Go Your Own Way | Adam Harris |
| Goodnight Death | Elsa Levytsky, Richard Weems & Mick Lexington |
| Grace | Peter Szemmelveisz |
| Grace | Olivier Surprenant |
| Grandma | Maxwell Klaiber |
| Gun Shy | Rachel Barrett |
| Handful of Water | James Byrne |
| Harriet | Sarah Mize |
| Heaven Is A Place On Earth | Danish Aslam |
| Her Own Music | Olivia Aleksoski |
| Home | Nir Shelter |
| Home Invasion | Cedrick May |
| How to Kill Your Roommate | Dave Byer |
| Hyper Real | Adam Cosco |
| I Live Alone, Everyone Does | George Snape |
| Ignored | Shaun Radecki |
| In Suspension | Amara Mesnik |
| It's OK. He's Friendly. | Brian Menz |
| Johnny Jump Up | Shiva Ramanathan |
| JoJo Dreams in Black and White | Alex Haney |
| Judgement Day | Jacob Davison |
| Juggernaut | Michael Goyert |
| Just Between Us | Pamela Perry |
| Just Me | Darcy Bahensky |
| Kahuna | Rich Figel |
| Kaya | Catherine Fordham |
| La La Land of Shame | Erin Greider |
| Let Go | Matt Brothers |
| Life After | Carrie Certa |
| Little Icarus | Irene Herbruger |
| Lollipops | Ivo Huahua |
| Lotus & Jazmine | Afnan Linjawi |
| Lucinda and the Fish | Keith Elias |
| Manifestations of Violet | Alisha Hnatjuk |
| Meet Me Someplace Better | Daniel Strauss |
| Memory Lane | Sherrill Schmidt |
| Methodism in Middle America | Trey Leonard |
| Miranda of Mind | Bianca Ahonor |
| My Love | Eric Gable |
| Native Land, Rising Sun Short Screenplay | Ren Hanami |
| Nearer, My God, To Thee | Peter Jones |
| Night of the Shtriga | DD Goldberg |
| No God at Night | Amanda Quintos |
| North Star | P.J. Palmer |
| Nothing Left | R. Cadell Cook, II |
| Obi | Wiley McCain |
| Oleanders | Tonia Kempler |
| Our Father | Francesca Nider |
| Outta the Blue | Trudi Kennedy |
| Past Partum | Jeffrey Howe |
| Phantom War | Scott Jeschke & Micah McFarland |
| Picnic at the end of the World | Chris Dumbleton |
| Pieces or A West Hollywood Club Called Rage | Chris Phillips |
| Progeny | Anthony Weintraub |
| Raw | Drake Shannon |
| Reach Out and Touch Someone | Penelope Karageorge |
| Rectitude Or Justice | Lewis Reckline II |
| Reel Life | Jeremy Span |
| Rinds | Faye Viviana |
| Roboh | Allan George |
| Robotomy | Michael Pizzano |
| Sabina | Nicole Starrett |
| Saint. Sinner. | J. Franklin Evans |
| Seeing The Light | Bronwyn King |
| Sensory | Che Rucker |
| Sergio: A Scorpion's Tale | Shaun Radecki |
| Shazia | Dilshad Vadsaria |
| Sky Burial | Terry Selucky |
| Slots: A Commuters' Fantasy | Anthony Povah |
| Springerle | Finley Mulligan |
| Stage Five | Alexandra Timmer |
| Star of David | Sydney Deeter |
| Subunderstood | Jack Heyden |
| Sundown County | Victor Ridaura |
| T.G.I.F. | Arthur Menko & Roy van Kessells |
| That Girl Is Poison | Jessica DiGiacinto |
| The Astronaut | Joey Connolley |
| The Brain In The Woods | Adam Makarenko |
| The Cronus Program | David Oster |
| The Day He Blinked the World Away (Blink) | Joseph Vranas |
| The Dead Girl | Garrett Foster |
| The Discarded | James Boyce |
| The Doll | Chris Walkley |
| The Foster | Elliot Seidel |
| The Fridge | Dianna Craig |
| The Gazebo | Richard Willett |
| The Great Kopycinski | Susannah Hunt |
| The House on Carter Road | Shawn Gerrard |
| The Key | Darek Cioch |
| The Kilima Chain | Josh Folan |
| The Knight of Nogales | Jason McCausland |
| The Last Human | Jeffrey Gerein |
| The Ledge | Joel Karlinsky |
| The Light | Tony Ferrendelli |
| The Morning Glory of Saint Winwaloe | V.C. Lennox |
| The Mother Load | Talia Osteen |
| The Oracle of Del Phi | Katrina Duclos |
| The Parrot | Adrienne Kohler |
| The Partisan | Harry Greenberger |
| The Redemption of Frank Malone | Mary Goldman |
| The Rubicon | Aminah Hughes |
| The Tug of War | Aaron Sweetman |
| The Wind | Janae Green & Maria Mitchell |
| The Zit | Mark Landry |
| Things That Fall | Sy Huq |
| This Mortal Coil | Andrea Ashton |
| This New West | Ryan Evans |
| To Hear From You | Charles Hopkins |
| To The Dead Sea | Philip Hogan |
| Torn | Lily Cheng |
| Transplant | Leah Sarbib |
| Traps | Tyler Gooden |
| Twenty Questions | Arla Bowers |
| Unconditional | Eva Sylvestre |
| Voices | James Beeler |
| Wa Wa | Amy Wang |
| Wall | Erin Cantelo |
| What's Normal? | J. Ernesto Dominguez |
| Whatever Happened to Muffin | Robert Frankel |
| Where the Wires Lead | Jason Huls |
| Whistler's Mother | Robbie Robertson |
| White-Collar Crime for Kids | Jason Petrovitch |
| Whose Son Are You? | Michael Ouzas |
| Winter Winds | Joshua Yi |
| Your Insides | Vanessa Branch |
| Zero T | Camila Ohara Tanabe |
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